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I think Brian needs to stop riding in helicopters. Imagine the harrowing stories he’s been telling about heading out to the Hamptons on Friday afternoons in July.
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Oh, FFS, I can’t stand Williams. He’s a covert conservative tool. But this shit is getting ridiculous.
The “questions” about his Katrina reporting have been disproven by photos and contemporaneous accounts. His hotel was surrounded by water and there were bodies floating in it.
As to the rest, he’s giving us a valuable lesson on how utterly unreliable memories formed under the influence of flight or fight hormones are, but no one wants to face that or the implications that follow from acknowledging that eyewitness testimony is of dubious value. So instead, there’s this pile-on.
A huge percentage of people insist they saw video of the second plane hitting the WTC on 9/11 when, in fact, it took days for that footage to surface. Dozens of people positively identified by rape victims have been acquitted by DNA evidence.
Memory is a far more complex thing than any of us want to admit. Much of what we think we remember is a story we put together days, weeks and months after the fact.
And yes, I now feel bad about having razzed Hillary about her recollection of that flight into Tuzla.
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In 1066 around Hastings arrows blotted out the sun and some indeed hit one of the sides of the oxen-pulled cart he was traveling in.
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Fibbing and little white lies, embellishing, these things can sort of be overlooked. Brian Williams is lying for some reason and now it is clear that he has been lying about just about everything of import.
He’s no Rush Limbaugh or Bill Oreilly and that is the problem, he is supposedly the honest and decent guy, not the typical blowhard false narrative douchebag.
Is a pretentious nice douchenozzle a better douchenozzle? Nope, Williams is now just an everyday average lying scumbag of he douchy variety.
He’s pathetic really.
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Of import? Not sure how important his lies really are. But NBC knew that his account of the helicopter incident was false, because one of the pilots involved wrote to protest his story. Yet, no correction was ever made. Instead, he doubled down. After all, a good story sells and brings in the audience who wants more, more, more.
I’m not sure NBC will do anything here, because it is just as culpable.
His lies are important not because of the addition to the original story but simply because of the willingness to lie. The fall from grace itself.
I’ll take your word on the NBC part of it and by doing that, we now have a basic conspiracy. Liars being covered up by basic deceivious bastards that more than anyone, know better.
Trust is the issue here because without it there is nothing. Everyone involved besides Williams, needs to be named, sent on long sabbaticals-that are really dismissals and NBC needs to air-literally its dirty laundry. I don’t watch them anyways so I give not 2 shits. My main issue is that Brian Williams goes on the Daily Show and others and smiley faces it and gets kudos all whilst knowing that he has been lying in order to get the invitations in the first place. Now we know that he is in fact a congenital liar. Why does he have a job, why are we being misled by people that we are supposed to be able to trust? Did John Stewart know? See what I mean, Williams is infectious.
I can’t bring myself to pile on. It’s just sad to see someone’s life and career unravel like this, deservedly or not.